Nove,ber 11, 2012
The IndiansMalaysia's Forgotten People
by Ranjit Singh Malhi (11-10-12) @www.themalaysianinsider.com
I impute to Dato Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz's new call in to Indian groups to meet with a Government as well as discuss a grievances of a Malaysian Indian Community.
Let's face a stark reality as well as look for permanent as well as holistic solutions to a problems plaguing a Indian Community. The Indian Community that forms about 7 per cent of a nation's population does rightfully feel alienated as well as frustrated.
Indeed, a singular can disagree that a Indian Community over a last couple of decades has turn in N. J. Colleta's words, "Malaysia's forgotten people." I would supplement that a community's in front of has been reduced to that of a "footnote" in a propagandize story textbooks that scantly admit their grant towards a mercantile growth of a nation.
The complaint of a marginalised Indian community, quite of a more than 300,000 replaced camp workers contingency be noticed as a grave inhabitant complaint that contingency be tackled rught away with a clarity of urgency as well as sincerity.
The Indian village is tormented by a series of problems besides poverty, low self-respect as well as having a lowest share of a nation's corporate wealth. It has a highest series of gangsters, prisoners, drug addicts, alcoholics, suicide rate as well as singular mothers in proportion to population. Indians commit about 50 per cent of a nation's serious crimes as well as jot down a highest percentage of deaths while under military custody. Indians also have a lowest hold up expectancy rate among a major races.
In all fairness, a Government has not prolonged ago undertaken sure initiatives to assuage a! problem s faced by a Indian village such as augmenting a series of seats for Indian matriculation students, promising a singular hundred scholarships for top Indian students as well as approving myKad for over 4,000 Indian Malaysians.
Such initiatives are really stairs in a right citation but they do not
residence a simple problems faced by a community. Much more needs to be finished for a Indian village such as enhancing a peculiarity of precision as well as guidance in Tamil schools, allocating increased seats in institutions of higher learning, creating adequate pursuit as well as commercial operation opportunities, on condition that appropriate skills training, as well as introducing land settlement schemes.
The Government should bear in thoughts that a nation owes a debt of gratitude to a Indian village for their invaluable grant before Merdeka. It was Indian work (mainly South Indians) that was a backbone of a rubber attention as well as essentially thankful for opening up most of what is today West Malaysia with their sweat, red blood as well as tears.
Rubber was a chief trade of Malaya for multiform decades beginning from 1916. Indian work was also essentially thankful for office office building a roads, railways as well as bridges besides constructing ports, airports as well as supervision buildings. Virtually every mile of railway lane that totalled over 1,000 miles as well as about 6,000 miles of metalled categorical roads as well as multiform hundred miles of tertiary roads by 1957 were built by Indian labour. As aptly stated by Muzaffar Tate, "The Public Works Department was an Indian preserve."
A small known fact is that hundreds of thousands of Indians died in developing complicated Malaya. According to a 1957 Federation of Malaya Census Report, most of! a 1.2 m illion net Indian immigration to Malaya in between 1860-1957 appears to have been wiped out by disease, snake bites, depletion as well as malnutrition. In a difference of Michael R. Stenson, " South India supposing an essential tribute of human lives but that a European owned camp attention in Malaya could not have been established."
To conclude, a nation owes a debt of gratitude to Malaysian Indians for their profitable past grant in nation building, quite in opening up a malarial as well as frugally populated jungle for commercial agriculture that formed a backbone of a country's economy until 1980. The Government is morally thankful to initiate poignant as well as prolonged lasting measures aimed during vastly improving a mercantile as well as amicable well being of a Indian Community.
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